I don’t sell as many toys as I used to, and I often skip picking up games unless they are brand new/factory sealed. (There are plenty of games out there worth picking up, but I know myself well enough to realize that if I will need to spend any amount of time checking to see if a game is complete, it will become a chore that I will procrastinate indefinitely. Thus, it’s best to not even buy the game in the first place.) Below are some of the toys and games I have sold recent-ish-ly.

Super Why is a good buy! I will buy pretty much any and everything Super Why. I picked up this small plastic (3″) toy at a yard sale over the summer, and it sold very quickly.

Paid: $0.50-ish @ ys, Sold: $19.95 (3 days after listed)

I love picking up Richard Scarry toys too! (Full disclosure, I borrowed the photo below because I have apparently already deleted mine.) I found all six of the characters in cars below in a quarter box at a yard sale over the summer. They were all used, but in very good condition.

Perfection! I pick this up whenever I find it complete and in good condition. I always list it for $39.95. It takes awhile, but they always eventually sell. I probably sell 3 or 4 sets every year.

Paid: $1.00 @ ys, Sold: $39.95 (several months after listing)

I still love The Office! I bought two Office-themed games at the same time, and the other (The Office version of Clue) sold ages ago.

NEW The Office Trivia Game
Paid: $5.00 from FB, Sold: $42.95 (around 10 months after listed)

I picked up several brand new puzzles on the half-off day at a children’s consignment sale in the spring. I think this might have been the first to actually sell. I don’t love that they take a long time to sell, but do like that there is a decent profit on them once they do.

NEW Once Upon A Time puzzle
Paid: $2.50 @ consignment sale, Sold: $49.95 (5 months after listed)

‘Tis the season to flip toys! Have you had any fun or exciting sales recently?

I think of loveys as being in a separate category from plush. And while plush may be my favorite thing to source/list/sell, loveys come in a close second! I get the BEST e-mails/thank yous/feedback from people who are replacing lost loveys.

Something worth noting about loveys ~ often the less expensive the brand, i.e., Garanimals (Walmart), Circo (Target), Little Miracles (Costco), the better. It means they weren’t expensive when they were originally on the market and a LOT of people bought them, which in turn means that there may be a lot of people now looking for replacements. Other brands can sell well too, including more expensive boutique brands, but whenever I find Garanimals I do a mental happy dance! (And then I look it up, because they aren’t all worth $$$.)

I have also sold dozens of loveys in the $15-$25 range. I noticed as I typed that all of the ones included above sold pretty quickly. While that’s great, I definitely have some that have taken longer to sell too. With loveys, the buyers are looking for something super specific, so you have to wait for the right buyer looking for the right lovey.

Another month has come and gone. Seriously, we’re over 1/4 of the way through the year already! The weather has been incredibly nice here over the last week too, sunshine every day. It’s almost yard sale season, yay!

Here are a few of my sales from March. I sold a bunch of clothes, no surprise.

I bought several of these tumblers from the Disney Store a couple years ago, and they sold very quickly. For some reason I had one left (maybe I was thinking about keeping it for myself?) but it was just sitting around so I finally listed it.

It has been a crazy couple months! Busy busy. In Dec/Jan/Feb I was given 2000 free bonus listings each month, so I spent quite a bit of time going through old inventory, ending listings, “selling as similar”, updating prices, adding best offer, as well as just tossing a few items in the donate pile. I didn’t get a lot of new items listed in February, but I did make it through my dozens of totes of active inventory. So, yay for that.

I had some decent sales this month too, including a couple mugs:

I probably paid around $3/each for them, and they both had a selling price of $34.95. Holly Hobbie had been listed since July 2015, and the Snow White Mug since 2013!!

I had the Build-A-Bear Disney princess dresses listed for quite awhile with no takers. I found the princess bear at VV after the dresses had been listed for a few months and added it to the lot (keeping the price the same) and it finally sold.

While plush will always be my favorite thing to sell, my most profitable sales now come from clothes. I like selling coats, although the margins on them aren’t usually as good because they cost more to ship.

Where did the last month go? I thought I would stop in and share a few sales.

Not long before Christmas I decided to STOP procrastinating, and list a few items that I knew should sell fairly quickly (you know, if only they were actually listed).

Such as:

Handy Manny’s toolbox! You push a button and it plays music and the front row of tools moves around. I have sold several of these over the last couple years (and my boys have their own that I am looking forward to selling . . . eventually.) I finally listed it on December 14, and it sold in about half an hour.

Sold: $49.95

Super Why is still a great buy! This was a bigger Whyatt, who had a cape that moved when a button on his chest was pushed, and he also had springs on his feet. He was also (finally!) listed on December 14, and sold the same day.

Sold: $44.95

A 3X “ugly” (actually really cute) Christmas sweater. Also listed on December 14, sold the next day.

Sold: $24.95

So, why was I procrastinating again? No idea.

And here’s a BOLO reminder that I have mentioned before – Thomas Duplos! I came across a lot that was being sold on a FB group. Oddly it had been listed for several hours when I came across the post, a decent-sized bag full, for only $5. Why no one else had snapped it up I’ll never know, but I was happy to buy it. I picked them up on Veterans Day, and then let my youngest play with them for a month or so. I finally got them all listed about a week before Christmas. I was hoping for a few last minute sales, but the first train from this lot didn’t actually sell until Christmas Day. On the upside, every single one of the others has already sold since then.

Percy
Sold: $19.95 (7 days after listed)

Gordon + tender + passenger car
Sold: $39.95 (12 days after listed)

Thomas + Troublesome Truck
Sold: $39.95 (13 days after listed)

Thomas
Sold: $17.95 (18 days after listed)

And I’ve also sold a few Star Wars toys, no huge surprise.

Paid: $1 @ ys, Sold: $39.95 (listed since late summer)

I bought around 150 costumes on Halloween clearance this year, and have already sold quite a few. I think I must be close to recooping all of my initial investment, if I haven’t already. I thought the costume below was cute.

Paid: $2.49, Sold: $24.95 (sold 5 days after listed)

I’ve been focusing a lot more on clothing lately, and bought very few toys at yard sales this summer for resale. But looking at all of these sales makes me think maybe I need to get back into the toy groove. You’ve gotta admit, they’re way more fun!

What has been selling well for you recently? I’d love to hear about it!

‘Tis the season. Sales are good right now. I am hoping to hit my sales goal for the month by the 20th because I know sales will drop off almost entirely then, if not before. Here are a few of my better sales over the last few days.

I bought a LOT of costumes at 90% off after Halloween. I’ve been listing a few here and there, and several have already sold. (Including a vampire costume. Who buys a vampire costume in December?) The Sonic the Hedgehog costume below also sold very quickly.

Paid: $1.99 @ Wal-Mart, Sold: $24.95

I bought a Mo Willems pigeon plush for my youngest on eBay for Christmas last year. For some reason they were selling it with the Pokemon plush below. It was in good condition, so I listed it. Wasn’t a super fast flip, but I sold it for more than I paid for both plush originally.

I picked up a bunch of animated (move and play music) hats on post-Christmas clearance two years ago. Almost all of them sold last year, with the exception of three of the style below. Two of which have sold so far this year.

Paid: $3ish, Sold: $34.95

This tapestry blanket was super cute, and in great condition.

Paid: $4ish @ VV, Sold: $49.95

I picked up all 12 of the plush below at a church rummage sale over the summer. I paid $25 for 3 bags of plush. I am sure I made my $25 back long ago on other plush sales. Apparently these Rudolph plush were sold at CVS years back.

My favorite day to hit yard sales has always been Fridays. Yard sale season is slowly starting around here, and the previous two weekends I hit a handful of Friday sales. My goal is always to have everything I purchased for resale on one Friday to be up and listed by the next Friday. Does it always work out that way? Notsomuch. In fact, when I was looking up yard sales last night to see what might be coming up this morning I was actually kind of happy that almost no yard sales were listed (probably due to a projected weekend of rain, rain, rain). I’m only two weeks into yard sale season and already a bit backed up. Not a great way to start out.

The good news is, even though I haven’t gotten *everything* listed from last Friday, a couple of the items I did list have already sold. Including:

I think I got this idea from a post someone else did. I would never have even looked at the knife block twice on my own.

Cutco 8 slot knife block
Paid: $1, Sold: $39.95 (3 days after listed)

With just the two above sales I’ve made more than I spent that entire morning. Feels good!

And one last fast flip from this week. The next sale came out of a tote in my storage room, purchased who knows how long ago at Value Village. It was incomplete – only 104 of the original 120 pieces were included (which I of course disclosed in the listing). There were no other listings for this particular “puzzle”, and I waffled about how high I should go, but since it was missing quite a few pieces I went the moderate route. There are also other animals/versions out there – I’ll be keeping an eye out for these in the future.

So, I fell really short of my October listing goal. I had hoped to get 200 new listings up, but I barely made it half way to that goal. I ended up getting sick at the beginning of the month, and did no new listing for about a week. (And a month later my cough is STILL hanging on! Enough already.) I lost a lot of momentum that week, and while I had finally gotten back up to speed by the end of October, there was no regaining all of that lost ground. I think it would have been a stretch anyway, but if I had been listing that week and saw the goal as possibly attainable, I probably would have worked harder at the end of the month too, trying to reach it. As it was, I knew I wouldn’t get there, so while I was still listing, I didn’t push as hard as I could/should have.

Sales were pretty good though. My new goal is to average $100 in sales each day. Some days I met that goal and more, some days I fell short. I wasn’t able to maintain that average for the whole month (that week off took its toll) but I am thinking November may be my month!

For listing too. I’m keeping my goal the same for November – 200 new listings. Tis the season, and I can’t sell it if it’s not listed, right?

I am also creating a Craigslist ticker this month. I don’t buy items to resell on Craigslist, but we have a number of items in our garage that have been languishing out there since we moved in . . . over a year ago. I want to get the garage all cleaned out before the cold weather sets in, so we can actually park both of our cars in there (imagine that!) so I am setting a goal of listing 30 things on CL.

For some reason the tickers aren’t posting correctly, and the links have to be clicked instead of just showing up in the blog post. Here’s hoping they magically fix themselves, like they sometimes do.

Most of my favorite sales in October were Halloween-related, but below are a few that weren’t.

Over the summer I picked up a bunch of sleep sacks and footie pajamas, and this last week I’ve gotten them all listed. I probably listed 10 or more different lots, and paid around $0.25 – $1.00 per item.